Founder of BET Says Black Lives Matter Should Start Their Own Political Party

Based on his conclusion that the Democrats have taken the black vote for granted.

This is the logical conclusion of identity politics. Each identity gets their own political party to leverage their interests. I support more parties, including the right to have this one. But my preference would be that the parties would be focused on competing ideas about how to govern, not competing interest groups fighting for a bigger share of government loot. The Democrat party may have been playing with fire when it built its coalition around identity politics. The Republicans are repulsive for different reasons.

Either way, if America is going to collectivism and group-identity then more parties is still less-worse than those same things in a two party system. Ultimately though, free thinking persons of every color and political persuasion are now in a struggle for their right to retain their identity as individual persons rather than be seen purely as members of a set of groups. The left has their collectivism, and so does the right (remember fascism, it didn't die in the Furherbunker). I demand the right to think, speak and live outside the societal expectations of the sum total of the groups I am assigned without collectivist retribution from either side.

I do notice that most of the protestors at BLM events are not black, so this party could count on some outgroup support for a while.

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If you are mentally healthy enough to sleep well at night even if people you have never met living in a city you have never been to are doing things that you don't approve of, then Localism may be the philosophy of government for you.

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